Thursday Happy Hour: Cocktail Recipes, Drinks, Music, and Good Times

Thursday Happy Hour Is Throwing a Twitter Party!

The Digital Cocktail Experiment Begins!

And you're invited! Join us this Thursday April 2, 2009, at 6pm PST on Twitter. Here's how:

1. Sign in or join Twitter and follow us.
2. Type @Thurshappyhour on Twitter and say hello. End with #THH01
3. Search for #THH01 to follow the conversation. http://search.twitter.com/

We'll be drinking Pegus -- but you can join us with whatever beverage you have on hand. If you're not sure how to make a Pegu, check back here on Thursday morning for the cocktail recipe.

Here are the ingredients for a Pegu cocktail: orange liqueur, limes (or lemons), gin, Angostura bitters. Get shopping!

See you on Twitter! http://twitter.com/thurshappyhour

Cheers!

~Shelly & Gary

Palm Springs Lemon Drop

Have You Ever Been Tempted to Steal Another Man's Lemons?
For G's birthday, we drove out to Palm Springs. We stayed at the Orbit In -- a small modern hotel by architect and builder Herb Burns that we've long admired. Weekday rates, baby!

We were lucky to have Orbitinis with the new owners Kevin and Jinny. Jinny is in textiles -- OMG, incredible linens. Made me want to bonfire my bed at home. Impressive Julius Shulman photography on the walls. A heavily laden lemon tree in the front yard. Which, in the darkness of night, lemons would fall in our bags. Almost throwing themselves at us.

In the morning, the neighbor-owner offered for us to take as many lemons as we'd like. We ducked our heads and thanked him. Then stuffed the trunk.

Dark and Stormy

Cocktails for Kids (Well, Sorta)
It was a dark and stormy ... OK, not really. It's not generally dark and stormy here in San Diego, and we were saving this cocktail recipe for the perfect balmy, summery, island-breezy day. But then ... we were asked to donate a tray of cocktails to raise money for a small school. In a traditionally dark and stormy place. And we thought, heck, let's send them a ray of Caribbean sunshine. Or at least, the parents.

Tonight, we toast the parents -- and the charming PTA prez -- at Sanislo school in Seattle! Cheers!

The Digital Cocktail Experiment

Swallow Your Digital Guilt Once and for All 
We've been super busy lately, and our friendly correspondence has sadly gotten stuck in the folds of dinner, laundry, and errands. So this past Thursday, we invited the Mac to join us for happy hour. We watched nephew videos, flipped through our friends' vacation pictures, and replied to e-mail and FB updates. Being social online usually means being anti-social in the real world, but not this time.

Which reminded us ... our friends have been bugging us to get on Skype for digital happy hours. We'll be trying that this Thursday for sure. Oh, and there's a Twitter experiment coming soon ...

Francis the Mule

Kick Away Those Winter Storms
We're feeling fortunate in San Diego this winter. Nearly two weeks until the first day of spring and it's 24 degrees in Minnesota, but it feels like 12, and it's a wet 43 in Seattle. We, however, are enjoying this nice warm California drought. Even if we do have to ration our water. This Thursday, we're sending warm toasts to our cold-weather friends with a cozy, comfy kick of a cocktail. Put aside your leftover coffee Thursday morning for this recipe ...